202 BIRDS OF THE 
males collected in the above mentioned localities there is 
not a single one in fully mature dress, all having wings 
and tail chestnut and breast and abdomen white with a 
tinge of fulvous. There are, however, specimens amongst 
them with some blue feathers in the wings and on the 
lower back and abdomen, and I should say, from this fact, 
that the fully blue dress of the adult male is only assu- 
med in the dry season, which, in the Kapoeas basin, be- 
ging about May. On the other hand I am obliged to state 
that a specimen obtained on January 29th has just as 
much blue in the wing as others which were shot in April, 
and a male obtained on May 10th has no blue on the wings 
at all. It is rather incomprehensible that amongst the many 
males their would only immature specimens be obtained. 
Strange enough Mr. Oates (Faun. Brit. Ind. Birds, II, p. 48) 
does not mention the entirely blue dress of the adult male 
at all. 
Hab. Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo. 
118. Philentoma velatum. 
Drymophila velata Temm. Pl. Col. 334 (¢) (1825). 
Philentoma velatum Salvad. Uce. Born. p. 189; Everett, L. B. Born. 
p. 130. 
Twelve specimens from the forests of Mount Kenepai, 
Nanga Raoen and the western slope of the Liang Koe- 
boeng, also two specimens from the Upper Mahakkam. 
A young female (N°. 1128), shot together with an adult 
male on April 25th, in the forest of the Liang Koeboeng, 
probably not many days after having left the nest, is 
quite different from the adult birds in color. The whole 
plumage, with the exception of wings and tail, is chest- 
nut-brown, yielding to maroon on the upper surface, espe- 
cially on the head, but much lighter than the throat in 
the adult male. Wings and tail, which have not yet attained 
their full size, are of the same color as in the adult birds, 
but the scapularies and all the upper wing-coverts are 
brown like the back. The change of color seems to be 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. X XI. 
